Gina Grillo
Gina Grillo is a freelance reporter for the Chicago Tribune.
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Lincolnshire celebrates holiday with Red, White and Boom fest: ‘Still the best old-fashioned Fourth of July’
The Red, White and Boom 4th of July celebration this year featured two days of Independence Day activities and attractions honoring the nation's semiquincentennial.

Park Ridge continues more than 25-year tradition with Gone Fishing Derby on June 27
Under a hazy summer sky, families gathered Saturday morning, along the shoreline and on the pier, as the quiet splash of lines baited with wax worms and night crawlers dipped...

Lake Bluff’s 26-year tradition, Artists on the Bluff Summer Arts Festival showed artists vision
Matt and Katie Frekko of Lake Forest attended Artists on the Bluff Saturday and say it has become something of a social community gathering for them.

Walking for Avenues draws hundreds in Park Ridge to celebrate independence and raise money
Hundreds gathered Saturday for a community celebration of independence and to participate in the second annual Walking for Avenues, at Maine South High School in Park Ridge.

Third annual Pride in Park Ridge Community Celebration on June 5 draws hundreds of attendees
Of the hundreds who attended Pride in the Park on Friday in uptown Park Ridge, many have grown up here and say they never thought they’d see a Pride Celebration...

Annual Fort Sheridan National Cemetery Memorial Day ceremony remembers those who made ultimate sacrifice
The morning rain cleared, revealing a blue sky on Sunday, May 24, for the 7th annual Fort Sheridan National Cemetery Memorial Day Ceremony in Lake Forest.

Park Ridge History Center holds annual Living Military display for Armed Forces Day
While World War II memorabilia for some of us can end up in a cardboard box gathering dust on a shelf in the basement, at the Park Ridge History Center...

Highwood’s new restaurant, Pelago Cafe, to feature cuisine inspired by Emilia-Romagna
Sharing the gastronomic delights of Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region runs through the blood, and the family legacy of Highwood residents and first cousins, Ruthie Amidei and Mada Ugolini Hitchmough.

Morton Grove sees fourth annual Earth A Palooza in Linne Woods for area residents
Amidst an array of national Earth Day celebrations, in Morton Grove, area residents gathered Sunday to celebrate not just the ways we can help our planet, but the ways the...

Hundreds in Park Ridge participate in No Kings protest Saturday
As Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A. blared from a distant car radio, hundreds of protesters gathered on Touhy Avenue between Summit and Prospect in Park Ridge for Saturday’s No...
